Stamp carrier



March 6, 192s. 1,661,395

` A. R. TALLMAN STAMP CARRI ER Filed Aug. 22, 1925 @How Patented Mar. 6, 1928.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT ROMAINE TALLMAN, F NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

STAMP CARRIER.

Application led August 22, 1925. Serial No. 51,786.

This invention aims to provide novel means whereby a supply of postage stamps may be carried on a. fountain pen or other object. The invention aims, further, to provide novel means for winding and holding the stamps.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

I'Vith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

ln the drawings Figure 1 shows in side elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, parts being in sectiongFigure 2 is a detail enlarged from Figure 1, the stamp carrier or shaft being in section; Figure 3 is a transverse section; Figure 4 is a perspective view showing the combined stamp winder and holder; Figure 5 is a sectional view showing a modification.

The numeral 1 marks a support, such as a fountain pen, provided with the usual cap 2 which houses the stylus. That extremity of the support 1 which is remote from the cap 2 is reduced as at 3, and a cap 4 is threaded at 5 on the reduced end 3. A hollow stamp carrier 6 is mounted at one end in the part 3 and is provided at itsV opposite end with a burr or flange 7. The flange 7y may be denominated a holding element, because it retains a combined stamp retainer and winder 18 on the carrier 6 for rotation. The combined retainer and winder 18, as shown in Figure 4, is made up of two annular heads 19, and a connection 20, in the form of a bar, joining the heads, the heads of the re` tainer and Winder being journaled on lthe carrier 6, one of the heads 19 being disposed closely adjacent to the part 3, and the other of the heads cooperating with the flange 7. The stamp carrier 6 has a longitudinal slot 8.

In practical operation, the cap 4 is removed, one end of ,a strip of stamps is inserted into the' slot 8, and when the winder and retainer 18 is rotated, on the carrier 6, the connection 20 will wind the stamps in a roll on the part 6. The stamps can be unwound, the part 18 rot-ating on the carrier 6. The bar or connection 20 aids in the winding of the stamps, and also serves to hold the stamps in a roll, as shown at 9 in Figure 3.

Passing to Figure 5, the carrier is shown at- 6, the winder and retainer at 18, the heads at 19, and the connection at 20a. The carrier 6 is mounted in the reduced neck 14 of a closure 12, the neck 14 being threaded at 15 so that it can be mounted on the cap of a fountain pen or the like. There is a spring clip 21 on the carrier 6u. One end of the strip of stamps is held on the carrier 6a by the clip 21, and when the winder 18 is rotated, the strips will be wound into a roll. In order to facilitate the unwinding of a strip of stamps, va support 23, in the form of a disk, is journaled on a shaft 24 carried by the closure 12. The operator may hold the support 23 in his lingers, and per mit the parts 12 and 6a to rotate, when t-he stam s are being unreeled.

W at is claimed is In a device of the class described, a stamp carrier, a support whereon one end of the carrier is mounted, a retaining means on the other end of the carrier, and a stamp winder including disk-like heads journaled on the carrier and cooperating with the support and the retaining means, and a narrow strip connecting the heads.

In testimony' that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aiixed my signature.

ALBERT ROMAINE TALLMAN. 

